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The cathedral is the seat of the Bishop of Winchester and is the mother church for the ancient Diocese of Winchester. It is run by a dean and chapter, under the Dean of Winchester . The cathedral as it stands today was built from 1079 to 1532 and is dedicated to numerous saints, most notably Swithun of Winchester .
There is also a bust of Walker in the Cathedral gardens. [8] A public house in Winchester is also named after him. [9] A plaque commemorates him on 118 Portland Road, South Norwood, where he lived. [10] A service of remembrance for Walker, was held at the Cathedral in October 2018. An exhibition about Walker ran until 31 October. [11]
This category is for people born or who have lived in Winchester in the English county of Hampshire. ... Burials at Winchester Cathedral (38 P) H.
William Edington (died 6 or 7 October 1366) was an English bishop and administrator. He served as Bishop of Winchester from 1346 until his death, Keeper of the wardrobe from 1341 to 1344, treasurer from 1344 to 1356, and finally as chancellor from 1356 until he retired from royal administration in 1363.
William Kingsmill was professed to the Rule of Saint Benedict at St. Swithun's Priory (Winchester Cathedral) in 1513. [1] Upon joining the Benedictine Monastery he took on the name of his home town Basyng and was known as William Basyng until 1540. [2]
Walkelin [a] (d. 1098) was the first Norman Bishop of Winchester.He began the construction of Winchester Cathedral in 1079 and had the Old Minster demolished. He reformed the cathedral's administration, although his plan to replace the monks with priests was blocked by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Lanfranc.
Thomas Langley was an English clergyman who rose to the position of canon of the 9th prebend of Winchester cathedral, which he held between 1559 and his death in 1581/82.. In 1546, he translated parts of the De rerum inventoribus by Polydore Vergil (c. 1470—1555), and in 1552 a treatise on the Sabbath written in Italian by Giulio da Milano (viz. Giuseppe della Rovere [1504—1581
William of Wykeham (born William Longe) was the son of John Longe, a freeman from Wickham in Hampshire. He was educated at a school in Winchester, and probably enjoyed early patronage from two local men, Sir Ralph Sutton, constable of Winchester Castle, and Sir John Scures, lord of the manor of Wickham, and then from Thomas Foxley, Constable of Windsor Castle.